Romans 12:2

A Life Dedicated To God

¹ Therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, I urge you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God; this is your spiritual worship. ² Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God. ³ For by the grace given to me, I tell everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he should think. Instead, think sensibly, as God has distributed a measure of faith to each one.

Conformed to This World

Of This World

Purpose of God

What is Good

Will of God

That Which Is Good

1 Peter 1:14

As obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires of your former ignorance.

Ephesians 5:17

So don’t be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.

Proverbs 3:1-4

My son, don’t forget my teaching,
but let your heart keep my commands;

Romans 12:1

Therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, I urge you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God; this is your spiritual worship.

Psalm 34:8

Taste and see that the Lord is good.
How happy is the man who takes refuge in Him!

Psalm 51:10

God, create a clean heart for me
and renew a steadfast spirit within me.

2 Corinthians 5:17

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away, and look, new things have come.

Psalm 119:47-48

I delight in Your commands,
which I love.

Proverbs 3:13-18

Happy is a man who finds wisdom
and who acquires understanding,

Ezekiel 36:26

I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.

Colossians 3:10

and have put on the new self. You are being renewed in knowledge according to the image of your Creator.

Titus 3:5

He saved us—
not by works of righteousness that we had done,
but according to His mercy,
through the washing of regeneration
and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

Psalm 19:7-11

The instruction of the Lord is perfect,
renewing one’s life;
the testimony of the Lord is trustworthy,
making the inexperienced wise.

Psalm 119:174

I long for Your salvation, Lord,
and Your instruction is my delight.

John 15:19

If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of it, the world hates you.

Romans 13:14

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no plans to satisfy the fleshly desires.

Galatians 1:4

who gave Himself for our sins to rescue us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father.

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, who is one of you, a slave of Christ Jesus, greets you. He is always contending for you in his prayers, so that you can stand mature and fully assured in everything God wills.

1 Thessalonians 4:3

For this is God’s will, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality,

2 Timothy 3:16-17

All Scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, for training in righteousness,

James 4:4

Adulteresses! Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? So whoever wants to be the world’s friend becomes God’s enemy.

2 Peter 2:20

For if, having escaped the world’s impurity through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in these things and defeated, the last state is worse for them than the first.

1 John 2:15-17

Do not love the world or the things that belong to the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him.

1 John 4:4-5

You are from God, little children, and you have conquered them, because the One who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

Revelation 13:8

All those who live on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name was not written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slaughtered.

Psalm 119:72

Instruction from Your lips is better for me
than thousands of gold and silver pieces.

Psalm 119:97

מ MemHow I love Your instruction!
It is my meditation all day long.

Psalm 119:103

How sweet Your word is to my taste—
sweeter than honey in my mouth.

Psalm 119:128

I carefully follow all Your precepts
and hate every false way.

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you, but it does hate Me because I testify about it—that its deeds are evil.

John 17:14

I have given them Your word.
The world hated them
because they are not of the world,
as I am not of the world.

Romans 7:12

So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.

Romans 7:22

For in my inner self I joyfully agree with God’s law.

1 Corinthians 3:19

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, since it is written: He catches the wise in their craftiness;

2 Corinthians 4:4

In their case, the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

James 1:27

Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

1 John 3:13

Do not be surprised, brothers, if the world hates you.

1 John 5:19

We know that we are of God, and the whole world is under the sway of the evil one.

Exodus 23:2

“You must not follow a crowd in wrongdoing. Do not testify in a lawsuit and go along with a crowd to pervert justice.

Leviticus 18:29-30

Any person who does any of these detestable practices must be cut off from his people.

Deuteronomy 18:9-14

“When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable customs of those nations.

Ezekiel 18:31

Throw off all the transgressions you have committed, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, house of Israel?

John 14:30

I will not talk with you much longer, because the ruler of the world is coming. He has no power over Me.

Romans 7:14

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am made out of flesh, sold into sin’s power.

Galatians 5:22-23

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

Ephesians 1:18

I pray that the perception of your mind may be enlightened so you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the glorious riches of His inheritance among the saints,

Ephesians 2:2

in which you previously walked according to the ways of this world, according to the ruler who exercises authority over the lower heavens, the spirit now working in the disobedient.

Ephesians 4:17-20

Therefore, I say this and testify in the Lord: You should no longer walk as the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their thoughts.

Ephesians 4:22-24

You took off your former way of life, the old self that is corrupted by deceitful desires;

Colossians 1:21-22

Once you were alienated and hostile in your minds because of your evil actions.

1 Peter 1:18

For you know that you were redeemed from your empty way of life inherited from the fathers, not with perishable things like silver or gold,

1 Peter 2:3

since you have tasted that the Lord is good.

1 Peter 4:2

in order to live the remaining time in the flesh, no longer for human desires, but for God’s will.

2 Peter 1:4

By these He has given us very great and precious promises, so that through them you may share in the divine nature, escaping the corruption that is in the world because of evil desires.

Revelation 12:9

So the great dragon was thrown out—the ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, the one who deceives the whole world. He was thrown to earth, and his angels with him.

Ephesians 5:9-10

for the fruit of the light results in all goodness, righteousness, and truth—

2 Corinthians 6:14-17

Do not be mismatched with unbelievers. For what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?